1492: Europe in America and america in Europe: or,Traveling Metaphors in the Discoveries of America

• Autores: Boris Vejdovsky
• Localización: Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, ISSN 0210-6124, Vol. 30, Nº 2, 2008, págs. 11-26
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Christopher Columbus may be the forerunner of our (post)modern condition: in his first accounts of the encounter with that land which is about to become America are contained all the tensions and contradictions of our contemporary world. Columbus is animated by faith, but he is greedy; he looks for a new world, but behaves like a tourist; he tries to decipher the unknown, but repeats the clichés of his own culture. Yet from all this a new world unexpectedly appears. This essay explores the cultural and rhetorical conditions that led to the emergence of �America� by focusing on some moments when material reality and metaphor coalesced to produce unforeseeable and unforgettable effects.